Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 2 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 3 | It is this that we examine in the next section . |
| 4 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 5 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
| 6 | NOTE Because ears are so sensitive , it is very painful if you shout in the ear of someone whose aid is switched on . |
| 7 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 8 | Well , things are different if you live in the Gorgie-Dalry area of Edinburgh — or at least , they were until recently . |
| 9 | The driver had the good manners to signal with headlights that he was clear but he stayed in the overtaking lane , letting the twin turbos build up speed . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 11 | New chief executive Lewis Platt shows a welcome colourful turn of phrase as he says ‘ We 're about as well-positioned as anyone to succeed in the murky environment that fiscal 1993 looks like it will be . |
| 12 | Suddenly rain poured down , and although we hurried back to the house , we were quite wet when we arrived in the hall . |
| 13 | The sweat was running down your back all day and I 've seen me taken off my white clothes and hang them up and they were still wet when you come in the next day . |
| 14 | That 's the worst time for her , she gets afraid when she wakes in the night . ’ |
| 15 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |
| 16 | Oswine 's power was clearly already weakening by January 690 for he refers in the grant to Abbess Aebbe at that time to those Kentish nobles who were able to be with him . |
| 17 | Pulling out of the ERM in September and letting the pound float away from the rest of the bunch now looks even smarter than it has in the interim — particularly in the light of Sweden 's experience . |
| 18 | It seems as certain as anything can be that the absolute numbers of the old , and for a long time also their number relative to the whole population , will be far higher in future than anything experienced in the past . |
| 19 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
| 20 | He produced newspaper cuttings proving that BB came to Nefta but I am not convinced that she stayed in the Hotel de la Liberté , whose plumbing leaves everything to be desired . |
| 21 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 22 | But do n't you feel uncomfortable , you as a member of the medical profession , do n't you feel uncomfortable if there exists in the wider world a set of rules which would condemn as one of the most heinous crimes that which you regard as the most humane of conduct ? |
| 23 | Venville tenants paid a certain , very small , fixed rent to the king or duchy , and were allowed free pasture on the commons and forest by day , but had to pay extra if they remained in the forest by night . |
| 24 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 25 | In the first three months of 1993 , they bought a net $1.2 billion of South Korean shares , more than half as much as they invested in the whole of 1992 . |
| 26 | For my money it can rain as much as it likes in the coming weeks . |
| 27 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 28 | It was almost totally dark when they arrived in the stable yard and Catherine jumped involuntarily as something moved and rattled against the boards . |
| 29 | Well to tell you the truth I did n't really see him cos it was dark when he got in the car . |
| 30 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |